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Identify whether the claim is accurate or not. If it's accurate, describe why. If it's untrue, explain why or provide an illustration that refutes it. Derivatives exist for all continuous functions.
For the following sets of variables, find all the relevant second derivatives. In all cases, first find general expressions for the second derivatives and then substitute variables at the last step.
Geographical Analysis (Oct. 2006) published a study of a new method for analyzing remote-sensing data from satellite pixels in order to identify urban land cover. The method uses a numerical measure of the distribution of gaps, or the sizes of holes, in the pixel, called lacunarity. Summary statistics for the lacunarity measurements in a sample of 100 grassland pixels are
a. Give the null and alternative hypotheses for a test to determine whether, in fact, the standard deviation of all grassland pixels is less than 22.
b. A MINITAB analysis of the data is provided below. Locate and interpret the p-value of the test. Use
Find derivatives of the functions defined as follows.